Arthur Brooks

And it was kind of stressing me out.

And I heard this conversation one night, kind of in the midst of this existential struggle I was finding myself in.

of this couple where I could tell by their voices it was a man and a woman.

I assumed they were a married couple, and I could tell that they were elderly by the sound of their voices.

And the husband was confessing to his wife that he might as well be dead.

And I'm thinking, whoa, what's wrong with this guy?

And then she's trying to console him.

It's not true.

He's like, nobody cares.

Nobody's listening to me.

Nobody remembers me.

I actually couldn't quite make out his words.

I could only make out her answers.

So I inferred from the conversation what he was saying.

And I got this vision in my head of this guy.

He must be somebody who's really disappointed with his life.

He's not the kind of person that your audience is trying to be.

Young and ambitious and getting ahead and profiting.

He's probably somebody who missed all his opportunities.

And now time has passed him by and it's too late.